What's anthropological agency?
I heard a fascinating Anthropology talk yesterday at Stanford, which suggested that food in Bengal, India, was an actant, or had agency.
... vis-a-vis mediation and in terms of being a generator of relationships ...
"Food as Mediation"
Manpreet K. Janeja
What's agency philosophically?
Oxford Companion to Philosophy -
A person (or other being) who is the subject when there is action. A long history attaches to thinking ...
A direct causal relation between agents and actions that is irreducible to causation by events and states. Advocates of agent ...
Typical agent-relative moral principles forbid us from committing one murder even if by not doing so we permit five to ...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Shared agency -
What's agency for robotics? When can we say that a robot has achieved various degrees of autonomous causation?
'Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents' series at the MIT Press
"When Is a Robot a Moral Agent?"
by John Sullins
What's agency for digital bots such as avatars in virtual worlds?
see these previous blog posts -